Best method to renovate roof bargeboard/facings

I shall strip and repaint my house bargeboards and side boards. These were
originally painted white using oil based primer/under/topcoat paint but may
have been over painted using white acrylic. The paint is now cracking and
flaking so a complete strip is the answer. Considering I will be up a
ladder what is the best order of alternatives:
Burn/scrape it off using a 1kW heat gun?
Strip it with Nitromors paint stripper?
Abraid it off with a drum sander?
Beemer

"Colin Jackson" <cojack6ATbtinternetDOTcom> wrote in message
| >I shall strip and repaint my house bargeboards and side boards. These
| >were
| > originally painted white using oil based primer/under/topcoat paint but
| > may
| > have been over painted using white acrylic. The paint is now cracking
| > and
| > flaking so a complete strip is the answer. Considering I will be up a
| > ladder what is the best order of alternatives:
| >
| > Burn/scrape it off using a 1kW heat gun?
| > Strip it with Nitromors paint stripper?
| > Abraid it off with a drum sander?
| >
| > Beemer
| >
| >
Colin,
Do you know if acrylic (water based) paint will also similarly melt?
Beemer

Beemer,
Nice to see you're still busy! To answer your question, Nitromors will not
work on acrylic but if you are sure that the original coatings were oil
based, then heat certainly will and the best tool is a gas blow torch with
the correct nozzle.
Brian G

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